Tilo Prückner (26 October 1940 – 2 July 2020
T-Online, 6 July 2020.) was a German television and film actor. His career spanned five decades and more than 100 films.

Early life

Tilo Prückner was born in

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, the son of the paediatrician Alfred Prückner and his wife Dorothea née Krause in Augsburg. The Prückner family has a long reaching family tradition in Hof. He first went to the St. Anna-Gymnasium in Augsburg and changed then to the school Melanchthon-Gymnasium in Nürnberg, where he passed his Abitur in 1960. He dropped his study of the law to begin an actor's education in

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with Hans Josef Becher and Ellen Mahlke.

Career

From 1962 until 1964 he was employed at the Schauburg in

, and afterwards worked at the Theater St. Gallen, from 1966 to 1968 at the

Theater Oberhausen Theater Oberhausen is a theatre in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW () ...

and 1968/1969 at the

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. From 1970 to 1973, he played at

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, where he was one of the founding members. Since 1973 he worked as a freelance actor at the Bayerisches Staatsschauspiel in Munich. After his participation in the TV-recordings of productions at the Schaubühne his work with directors of the

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increased, including Bernhard Sinkel,

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and

Peter Fleischmann Peter Fleischmann (26 July 1937 – 11 August 2021) was a German film director, screenwriter and producer. He worked also as an actor, cutter, sound engineer, interviewer and speaker. Fleischmann belonged to the New German Cinema of the 1960s a ...

. He often played sick or handicapped people. In 1976 Prückner received the for his role as the violinist Hännschen Wurlitzer in '. Among his more recognized roles with international audiences are the bat-riding "Night Hob" in the 1984 fantasy film ''

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'' and the scientist Dr. Richter in the 2012 science fiction comedy ''

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''. In later years Prückner proved his art of interpreting diverse characters in a great number of movie and TV productions, often portraying cranky or eccentric characters. He appeared as the hypochondriac detective Gernot Schubert in the TV-series ''

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'' for six years, co-starring with

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and Heinz Baumann. Since 2003, he had a regular supporting role in the TV-series '' Kommissarin Lucas'' as the landlord of the main character played by Ulrike Kriener. From 2015 until his death, he played a lead role in the ARD crime series ''Rentnercops'' about retired cops who are hired back into their jobs. In 2013, he published his first novel, ''Willi Merkatz wird verlassen''.

Death

On 2 July 2020 Prückner died of a sudden heart failure in

at the age of 79.

Selected filmography

* ' (1967, dir.

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) as Stiglitz * '' Apokal'' (1971, dir. Paul Anczykowski) as Miles * ' (1974, dir.

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) as Zick Zack * ''

One or the Other of Us ''One or the Other of Us'' () is a 1974 West German film directed by Wolfgang Petersen. It was Petersen's first theatrical feature film, and was based on the novel of the same name by Horst Bosetzky, published anonymously under his pseudonym -ky. ...

'' (1974, dir.

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) as Drögnitz * ''Schoolmaster Hofer'' (1975, dir.

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) as Custodian * ' (1975, dir.

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) as Crazy Butch * '' John Glückstadt'' (1975, dir.

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) as Michel * ''Familienglück'' (1975, dir. , ) as Manfred * ' (1975, dir. Bernhard Sinkel,

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) as Laski * ''

The Sternstein Manor ''The Sternstein Manor'' (german: Sternsteinhof) is a 1976 West German drama film directed by Hans W. Geißendörfer. It was entered into the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. Cast * as Leni Zinshofer * Tilo Prückner as Nepomuk Kleebi ...

'' (1976, dir.

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) as Nepomuk Kleebinder aka Muckerl * ' (1976, dir.

) as Charly * ' (1976, dir.

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) as Hänschen "Paganini" Wurlitzer * ''

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'' (1977, dir. Heidi Genée) as Gerd Minde * ''

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'' (1978–2014, TV Series, 11 episodes) as Kriminalhauptmeister Neubert / Hermann Heindl * '' Paul kommt zurück'' (1978, dir. ) as Kalle * ''Der harte Handel'' (1978, dir.

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) as Sepp Lederer * ''

The Man in the Rushes ''The Man in the Rushes'' (German: ''Der Mann im Schilf'') is a 1978 West German thriller film directed by Manfred Purzer and starring Jean Sorel, Erika Pluhar and Nathalie Delon.Bock & Bergfelder p.529 The film's sets were designed by the art dir ...

'' (1978, dir.

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) as Tramp * ''

The Tailor from Ulm ''The Tailor from Ulm'' (german: Der Schneider von Ulm) is a 1978 West German drama film directed by Edgar Reitz, of ''Heimat (film series), Heimat'' fame. It is the true story of a German pioneer aviator, Albrecht Berblinger, in the late 18th c ...

'' (1978, dir.

) as

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* ' (1979, dir. ) as Albert Rais * ''

The Hamburg Syndrome ''The Hamburg Syndrome'' (german: Die Hamburger Krankheit) is a 1979 West German-French science fiction film directed by Peter Fleischmann and starring Helmut Griem, Fernando Arrabal and Carline Seiser. The film is about an outbreak of an epide ...

'' (1979, dir.

) as Fritz * '' The Willi Busch Report'' (1979, dir.

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) as Willi Busch * ''Die Kinder aus Nr. 67'' (1980) as Herr Brackmann * ' (1981, TV Movie, dir. ) as

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* ''

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'' (1982, dir.

) as Lehrer Popow * ' (1983, dir.

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) as Fred * ' (1983, dir. Rolf Silber) as Herr Bauermann * ' (1984, TV Movie, dir. Peter Adam) as Fred * ' (1984, dir.

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) as Bazille * ''

'' (1984, dir.

) as Schwienhund. * ' (1984, dir. ) as Theo Schuster * ' (1984) * ' (1987) as Von Knörringen * '' Freckled Max and the Spooks'' (1987) as Sepp * ''Herz mit Löffel'' (1987) * ''Wallers letzter Gang'' (1989) as Paul Schönfaerber * ''Hab' ich nur deine Liebe'' (1989) as Michael Seebisch * ''Verfolgte Wege'' (1989) as Heindl * ' (1992, dir.

) as Willi Busch * ' (1993) as Teacher * ''

'' (1993–2000, TV Series, 26 episodes) as Kriminalhauptmeister Gernot Schubert * El Chicko' – der Verdacht'' (1996) as Pauls father * ''Alle für die Mafia'' (1998) as Sepp * ''Pinky und der Millionenmops'' (2001) as Punk * ''

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'' (2001) as Heinrich Hoffmann * ''

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'' (2001–2008, TV Series, 15 episodes) as Kriminaloberkommissar Eduard Holicek * '' Kommissarin Lucas'' (2003–2019, TV Series, 29 episodes) as Max Kirchhoff * ''

Die Stunde der Offiziere ''Die Stunde der Offiziere'' ( en, italic=yes, The Hour of the Officers, link=yes) is a German semi-documentary movie of 2003 telling in chronological order about the German resistance attempts to kill Adolf Hitler and seize power in Germany in t ...

'' (2004) as

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* ' (2005) as Fritz * ''5 vor 12'' (2006) as Geldeintreiber #1 * ''Doppelspiel'' (2006) as Louis Seyfer * '' The Counterfeiters'' (2007) as Hahn * ''SEK Calw'' (2007) * ''Mein Freund aus Faro'' (2008) as Willi Wandel * ''Totgesagte leben länger'' (2008) as Psychiater * ' (2008) as Schreiner Christof * ' (2009) as Wirt Landgasthof * ''Village People 2 – Auf der Jagd nach dem Nazigold'' (2009) as Adolf Hitler * ''Village People – Voll Porno'' (2011) as Pornoproduzent * ''Anduni – Fremde Heimat'' (2011) as Onkel * ' (2011, TV Movie) as Holger Thiessen * ''

Iron Sky ''Iron Sky'' is a 2012 comic-science-fiction action film directed by Timo Vuorensola and written by Johanna Sinisalo and Michael Kalesniko.

'' (2012) as Doktor Richter * ' (2012) as Schlepper * ''

Little Thirteen ''Little Thirteen'' is a 2012 German drama film directed by Christian Klandt. The film stars Muriel Wimmer as one of three troubled teenagers from different social backgrounds that face various challenges. Synopsis Thirteen-year-old Sarah (Muriel ...

'' (2012) as Holger Schreiber * ''Tatort Calw – Hexensabbat'' (2013) as Dr. Franz Bäuerle * ''

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'' (2013) as Herr Kaan * ''Tatort Calw – So ein Theater!'' (2014) as Attentäter * ''Nebenwege'' (2014) as Ferdl * ''

Coming In ''Coming In'' is a 2014 German romantic comedy film directed by Marco Kreuzpaintner. Plot Tom Herzner, a notoriously hip hairdresser, falls in love with a beauty parlor owner named Heidi. The only problem is that Tom is gay and has never had sex w ...

'' (2014) as Erich * ''Herzlos'' (2014) as Obdachloser * ''Honig im Kopf'' (2014) as Dr. Ehlers * ''Ostwind 2'' (2015) as Herr Kaan * ''Kleine Ziege, sturer Bock'' (2015) as Jakobs Vater * ' (2015–2020, TV Series, 56 episodes) as Kriminaloberkommissar Edwin Bremer * ''Ostwind 3: Aufbruch nach Ora'' (2017) as Herr Kaan * ''Village People – Tod aus dem All'' (2018) as Dr. Bretschneider * ''Ostwind: Aris Ankunft'' (2019) as Herr Kaan * ''Mordkommission Calw – Schattenkrieger'' (2019) as Dr. Neufeld

Awards

* 1976 – German Actors Award (Deutscher Darstellerpreis) * 1980 – Reader Jury Award

Books

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pruckner, Tilo 1940 births 2020 deaths Actors from Augsburg German male film actors German male television actors 20th-century German male actors 21st-century German male actors